LONDON, UK – A Harvard physicist has launched a $1.5 million mission to prove that a meteorite that exploded over the Pacific Ocean in 2014 was an alien probe.
Avi Loeb spent years working closely with the US military to pin down the impact zone near Papua New Guinea and is now ready to embark on an expedition to uncover the fragments left behind.
Loeb said a boat and ‘dream team’ are secured for the venture, along with ‘complete design and manufacturing plans for the required sled, magnets, collection nets and mass spectrometer,’ he shared in a Medium post.
Speaking to the Daily Beast, Loeb said he plans to scour the ocean floor for two weeks using sand sifters, some with magnets, which should catch what he believes are pieces of alien technology.
he US Space Command confirmed in April 2022 that the 1.5-foot-wide meteorite came from another solar system, making it the first known interstellar visitor to Earth.
And this, according to Loeb, provides more evidence to back up his theory.
Loeb has made a name for himself for openly believing that aliens have made contact with Earth.
In 2021, the physicist released a book titled ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth,’ that argued that Oumuamu is not a comet or asteroid but a light sail – a method of spacecraft propulsion.
Oumuamua was discovered in October 2017 by a telescope in Hawaii, millions of miles away.
Loeb has been planning the trip to Papua New Guinea since he first learned about the asteroid in 2019.
Four years prior, the interstellar meteor was spotted just north of Manus Island, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, on January 8, 2014.
